Asteroid 11351 Leucus

Referred to as a Trojan asteroid, it will be visited by the Lucy mission in April of 2028.

Quick Facts

This 40 km (25 mile) D-type asteroid rotates extremely slowly. Its day is 446 hours!

Artist's view of what the Lucy spacecraft, with its big round solar panels, might look like flying past one of its asteroid targets.

as it rotates its brightness as observed from Earth varies a lot, suggesting that it is quite elongated.

Artist's concept of the Lucy orbiter with its distinctive round solar panels as it flies past a Trojan asteroid near Jupiter.